Billy Price might be the perfect guy for Ohio State to have host its football recruits. Or the worst guy. On top of being an All-Big Ten offensive lineman, Price is an All-America talker with a future in broadcasting. But here's the rub: He won't tell typical recruits what they want to hear. "With...

The Big Ten basketball season will begin a month earlier than usual, and the openers include a matchup of in-state rivals. Illinois will visit Northwestern on Dec. 1 at Allstate Arena in Rosemont to open the conference schedule announced Wednesday. The Big Ten is squeezing in earlier matchups because...

Ten newcomers to keep an eye on as the Big Ten kicks off play. (Not pictured: Jeffrey Okudah, CB, Ohio State: The top-rated cornerback recruit in the nation, the speedy Okudah enrolled early, and the Buckeyes might need him to make an impact quickly after losing three defensive backs in the first...

A teenager’s college basketball decision in August could have an impact in April. Marvin Bagley III, one of the nation's top prep stars, announced Monday night on national television that he intends to reclassify to become eligible for this upcoming basketball season by forgoing his scheduled senior...

In 2009, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez had a speaking engagement at Notre Dame. While on campus, he also scheduled to meet with Irish AD Jack Swarbrick, who was in his second year in the position. Alvarez introduced the idea of Notre Dame and Wisconsin playing in football. After years...

Mike Tirico on Monday was named the new voice of Notre Dame football on NBC, his latest high-profile assignment since joining the network last year. Tirico, who called three Irish football game last season while regular NBC play-by-play man Dan Hicks was covering pro golf for the network, succeeds...

Dick Berry was a gregarious, slightly pudgy forward for Northwestern who mostly was interested in just game days. "He was a lot of fun," teammate Joe Ruklick said of Berry. "He liked to drink beer and he was overweight. He didn't like to practice hard, though." Nick Mantis couldn't take the lazy...

We'll spare you the #FakeNews jokes. (Sorry, too late.) But when Sports Illustrated named the Big Ten the nation's No. 1 conference, it was not to prank Nick Saban or Paul Finebaum. Writer Joan Niesen cited the Big Ten's new TV deal as the tiebreaker with the SEC, which has seen some fraying with...

Not a good day, but a great day. That's the mindset Indiana linebacker Tegray Scales lives by. He learned the motto from Tom Bolden, his coach at Colerain High School near Cincinnati, and brought it with him to Bloomington. The senior is the Hoosiers' motivational speaker. "Before I go to sleep,...

Notre Dame and Wisconsin will make it official Monday during a news conference at the Under Armour store on Michigan Avenue: Their football series is on. Lambeau Field will host in 2020, Soldier Field in 2021. Two monster programs slugging it out in two NFL cathedrals. After the Tribune reported...

David Blough's mother knew best. If she hadn't been sneaking around behind his back when he first started playing football, the Purdue quarterback would have been a wide receiver or a fullback. That's what he wanted. Instead, his mother told his first coach to put him behind center. "She saw leadership...

Amari Bailey is scheduled to graduate from high school in 2022. After that, the eighth-grader at Chicago's Skinner West Elementary plans to play basketball for DePaul, according to a statement posted Friday on the MeanStreets AAU team's Twitter account. "I've always wanted to play for my city,...

Florida's leading returning receiver, Antonio Callaway, and six other players will be suspended for the Gators' season opener against Michigan on Sept. 2, the school announced Sunday. Florida Coach Jim McElwain did not elaborate on the reason for the suspensions, but ESPN reported the players used...

Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has undergone knee replacement surgery. Team spokesman Cory Walton says the procedure on his right knee was performed Sunday by Dr. Michael Bolognesi at the university's hospital. Bolognesi says the surgery went “very smoothly,” and doctors hoped to have the...

It didn't take long for Cameron Smith to become familiar with his new surroundings. The Arizona State graduate transfer already had a relationship with new Notre Dame assistants Chip Long and Del Alexander, both of whom spent time coaching the Sun Devils. That helped for a smooth transition when...

Louisville said the NCAA “abused” its authority when it disciplined the school for a sex scandal that could result in the loss of its 2013 national basketball championship. The school also said in a 68-page appeal released Friday that the governing body imposed “draconian” penalties and ignored...

The last thing football coaches should want to do is discourage reporters from attending practices through onerous restrictions on what they can report, how and when. Like many college and pro teams, Notre Dame issued a memo the other day reiterating its media restrictions. These include limits...

The agony of Notre Dame's eighth defeat last season might have, at least in part, prompted Jerry Tillery to put his left foot down — twice. The 6-foot-7, 306-pound defensive lineman appeared to prod in the head with his foot a defenseless USC player who had just absorbed a helmet-to-helmet hit...

UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen stirred up some preseason controversy when he said, "football and school don't go together," in an interview with Bleacher Report published this week. Northwestern running back Justin Jackson's response: It's possible to excel at both. "It's real tough," he said of balancing...

J.A. Adande is leaving ESPN after a decade to devote himself fully to the position at Northwestern University he took on a year ago. Adande had continued to work on a contract basis for ESPN’s multimedia platforms after becoming director of sports journalism and an associate professor at the Medill...

Rod Carey is not, in his words, a "two-quarterback guy." Three weeks before a major-conference opponent comes to DeKalb for the first time since 2003, the fifth-year Northern Illinois coach has three quarterbacks on his mind. Carey sees all the traits necessary to succeed at the position. He just...

DePaul men’s basketball coach Dave Leitao hired one assistant and moved another, the school announced Thursday. Tim Anderson, a Chicago native and Crane High School product, was hired as an assistant coach, while former assistant Billy Garrett was shifted to director of basketball operations. Anderson...

Former Mississippi coach Houston Nutt's civil lawsuit against the school and its athletics foundation has been dismissed by a federal judge. The one-page filing said the federal court “lacks jurisdiction under the pleadings as presented” and the suit was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers....

"One more," Tyler Lancaster said he kept telling himself. Do just one more. In July, as his teammates counted along in the weight room, the Northwestern defensive tackle bench-pressed 225 pounds 37 times. That mark would have topped every prospect at this year's NFL combine. "You're just doing...

An average of 12,235 people showed for per Big Ten men’s basketball game last season, tops in the country, according to the NCAA. It marked the 41st straight year the Big Ten led the nation in men’s basketball attendance. A total of 3,119,823 showed up for the league’s home and conference tournament...

Before practice Saturday in Culver, Ind., Notre Dame distributed a list of guidelines to the media for covering the team’s practices. It was the second of five Irish preseason practices scheduled to be open to the media. The rules, which a reporter posted on social media, caused a minor stir there....

A year ago, Brandon Wimbush was Notre Dame's third option. All eyes were on the quarterback competition between DeShone Kizer and Malik Zaire. Wimbush was an afterthought. Flash forward to Saturday. Kizer is with the NFL's Browns, Zaire with the Florida Gators. And Wimbush is in charge as Notre...

Lovie Smith landed his highest-rated recruit since arriving at Illinois when four-star defensive tackle Calvin Avery committed to the Illini on Friday. The 6-foot-2, 310-pound Avery, from Bishop Dunne High School in Dallas, chose the Illini over offers from TCU, Oklahoma, USC and Colorado. The...

Ara Parseghian was remembered as a championship football coach, mentor, tireless fund-raiser for medical research and gentleman of the first order during his funeral Mass and a memorial celebration that followed on Sunday. Parseghian, who brought Notre Dame's proud program out of the doldrums of...

He doesn't come with an off switch. Not even a pause button. The first episode of ESPNU's "Being P.J. Fleck" revealed that the Big Ten's youngest coach has always been an exploding soda can of energy, playing sports nonstop amid the cornfields of west suburban Sugar Grove. "Busy little boy," his...

Illinois opens the Brad Underwood era with six straight home games, the program announced Thursday. Underwood, who coached at Oklahoma State last season, replaces head coach John Groce, who was fired in March. Illinois plays 18 home games at State Farm Center in Champaign this upcoming season. ...

The Northwestern men’s basketball team will begin play in its home away from home — Allstate Arena — Nov. 10 when it opens its season against Loyola. That is the first of eight nonconference home games the Wildcats will play there this season while Welsh-Ryan Arena is renovated. The school announced...

If you're a high school that's looking for a new boys' basketball coach, do you pick a person who is a strong role model for young men, or do you choose: A coach who surreptitiously paid the tuition of two of his college players, a flagrant violation of NCAA rules A coach who, after one of those...

Northwestern might not have the Big Ten’s best football team, but how about the most mature? Eighteen Wildcats, most of any Division I school, will pursue graduate degrees this fall. And quarterback Clayton Thorson recently announced his engagement to longtime girlfriend Audrey Gross on social...

A memorial service for former Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian is set for Sunday on the school's northern Indiana campus. School officials say singer Vince Gill will perform at Sunday afternoon's memorial at Notre Dame's Joyce Center. Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz and former...

Impeccably organized, Ara Parseghian knew exactly where to find the letter Digger Phelps had written him in 1965 as a high school basketball coach in Pennsylvania professing his love for Notre Dame. Parseghian kept Phelps' note in the "Crazy Letter File." So at a dinner on campus after he was hired...

Ara Parseghian's first team meeting in his first year as Notre Dame football coach left a lasting impression. Alan Page, a freshman defensive lineman for the Irish during that 1964 season, said he had a "lightbulb moment" when Parseghian simplified the game for him by breaking it down into two...

Pat Fitzgerald sees the framed photo every day the Northwestern football coach is in his office. It's an image of a beaming Fitzgerald, then 35, walking practically arm in arm with Ara Parseghian. The picture was shot at sunset on the eve of the Wildcats' 2010 homecoming game against Michigan State....

Josh Adams made it through the first day of practice unharmed. A hamstring injury he suffered on the first day of camp last year hamstrung the Notre Dame running back's sophomore season in some ways. "I made it past the first one," he said with a smile Tuesday, shortly after the Irish completed...

Kansas State basketball coach Bruce Weber went from the hot seat to the NCAA tournament last season. That was enough to earn him two more years on the job. Weber agreed to a contract extension Tuesday that could keep him with the Wildcats through the 2020-21 season, the first major personnel decision...

It was one inconsequential play in a basically meaningless training camp practice last weekend, a late-July development that will have no bearing on the success or failure of the Dallas Cowboys in the regular season. Second-year linebacker Jaylon Smith found a crease between blockers, reacted with...